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How to add more fiber to your diet How to add more fiber to your diet
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1. Eat cereal every day for breakfast. Ideally, aim for a whole grain cereal with at least 4 grams of fiber a serving. Healthy, high-fiber cereals you might want to consider include Kellogg's All-Bran Original, Kashi GOLEAN, and Kellogg's Raisin Bran.
2. Eat two apples every day. Not just to keep the doctor away, but because apples are a good source of soluble fiber.
3. Make a yogurt mix once a week for breakfast. Take a container of yogurt and mix in 1/3 cup All-Bran cereal, 1 tablespoon ground flaxseeds, and 5 strawberries which adds up to 12 grams of fiber.
4. Make baby carrots and broccoli dipped into low-fat ranch dressing your afternoon snack a few days a week. There are 5 grams of fiber in each cup of veggies.
5. Switch to whole grain crackers. You'd never think a tiny cracker can make a difference, but one regular whole wheat cracker has 1/2 gram of fiber. Ten crackers give you 5 grams of fiber. .
6. Mix your regular cereal with the high-fiber cereal. Instead of eating an entire bowl of All-Bran mix it with an equal amount of Apple Cinnamon Cheerios or another flavored cereal.
7. Add chickpeas to your next salad. A quarter cup adds an additional 5 grams of dietary fiber.
8. Make sure that the first ingredient in whole grain products has the word "whole" in it, as in "whole wheat," or "whole grain." If it says multi-grain, seven-grain, nutra-grain, or enriched wheat, it's not whole wheat, and is lacking some fiber.
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Creator: jillybean
Category: Diet and Nutrition
Posted: 6/9/2008
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OzzieOcean “ Great tip... fiber is so important and so many people don't even realize it. ”
-  OzzieOcean on 6/10/2008
OldeButGoode “ Great post - everyone should read and remember (live) it. ”
-  OldeButGoode on 6/9/2008
MleighS84 “ interesting - i guess that makes sense now that i think about it ”
-  MleighS84 on 6/9/2008 in response to runningbear
runningbear “ I read an article recently on nutrition and dietary needs, specificially how much is too much, and it stated that with respect to fiber, there is NO such thing as too much. ”
-  runningbear on 6/9/2008

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